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Rain Partier

Avengers #5 revealed the origin of Isabel Dare, a new human Imperial Guard member. One of the character's subplots revolve around the character's grandfather, a grumpy old man with some sort of connection to Steve Rogers and a mysterious past.

So who is Izzy Dare's grandfather? Keen eyed Brits might recgonize him as Dan Dare, a British science fiction comic book character who has appeared in the Eagle and 2000AD magazines. Dan Dare is a British equivalent to Buck Rogers and served as an inspiration for Captain Jack Harkness of Doctor Who fame among others.

Dan Dare has been hailed as an inspiration to many influential comic book writers. Both Chris Claremont and Warren Ellis refer to Dan Dare as one of their earliest influences and one can point out some of the sci-fi elements shared between Claremont's first X-run and various Dan Dare stories. Ellis, meanwhile, has written several characters based on Dare (such as Dan Dashwood in Ministry of Space) and even wrote a Dan Dare miniseries published by Virgin Comics back in 2008. Grant Morrison also wrote an iteration of Dare in the pages of Revolver, which featured a grim and gritty Dare blowing up London with a nuclear bomb.

Dare was briefly referred to in Marvel's Captain U.K. line, where a Captain "Roy Risk" from Earth-238 had been killed by the Fury.

Of course, Hickman can't openly call the character Dan Dare, since Marvel doesn't appear to have rights to the character. Currently Dan Dare can be found in the pages of Spaceship Away, a British small press comic available mainly by mail order.

Avengers #5 revealed the origin of Isabel Dare, a new human Imperial Guard member. One of the character's subplots revolve around the character's grandfather, a grumpy old man with some sort of connection to Steve Rogers and a mysterious past.

So who is Izzy Dare's grandfather? Keen eyed Brits might recgonize him as Dan Dare, a British science fiction comic book character who has appeared in the Eagle and 2000AD magazines. Dan Dare is a British equivalent to Buck Rogers and served as an inspiration for Captain Jack Harkness of Doctor Who fame among others.

Dan Dare has been hailed as an inspiration to many influential comic book writers. Both Chris Claremont and Warren Ellis refer to Dan Dare as one of their earliest influences and one can point out some of the sci-fi elements shared between Claremont's first X-run and various Dan Dare stories. Ellis, meanwhile, has written several characters based on Dare (such as Dan Dashwood in Ministry of Space) and even wrote a Dan Dare miniseries published by Virgin Comics back in 2008. Grant Morrison also wrote an iteration of Dare in the pages of Revolver, which featured a grim and gritty Dare blowing up London with a nuclear bomb.

Dare was briefly referred to in Marvel's Captain U.K. line, where a Captain "Roy Risk" from Earth-238 had been killed by the Fury.

Of course, Hickman can't openly call the character Dan Dare, since Marvel doesn't appear to have rights to the character. Currently Dan Dare can be found in the pages of Spaceship Away, a British small press comic available mainly by mail order.

Rain Partier

yeah, but no. i mean it's explained how she gets the suit, and how she gets to Chandilar, and how she goes from subguardian to superguardian, but never once does Hickman even pretend to offer up an explanation for why the Imperial Guard, a force whose sole purpose for being is to guard and protect the Shi'ar Imperium, would even consider taking in someone who has absolutely no loyalty to that empire or the people who run it. she just shows up on the throneworld wearing Smasher tech she picked up basically out of the trash and Gladiator and the rest are like "'sup. oh, you confiscated our dead guy's tech? it's cool, come join our most prestigious, well-trained, groomed from birth group of warriors, random Earthling college dropout #187,432."

Hickman made me like Izzy Dare in just this one issue, and i think she'll make a fine Avenger, but i'm having trouble buying the idea that she'd be accepted as a Guardsman too.

yeah, but no. i mean it's explained how she gets the suit, and how she gets to Chandilar, and how she goes from subguardian to superguardian, but never once does Hickman even pretend to offer up an explanation for why the Imperial Guard, a force whose sole purpose for being is to guard and protect the Shi'ar Imperium, would even consider taking in someone who has absolutely no loyalty to that empire or the people who run it. she just shows up on the throneworld wearing Smasher tech she picked up basically out of the trash and Gladiator and the rest are like "'sup. oh, you confiscated our dead guy's tech? it's cool, come join our most prestigious, well-trained, groomed from birth group of warriors, random Earthling college dropout #187,432."

Hickman made me like Izzy Dare in just this one issue, and i think she'll make a fine Avenger, but i'm having trouble buying the idea that she'd be accepted as a Guardsman too.

Staff Writer

BubbaKanoosh wrote:They should've done something like Gladiator sending someone to Earth as a watchdog type thing. His eyes and ears on Earth, since AvX earth is kinda on everyone's hate list

In Wolverine & The X-Men, Gladiator sent his son, Kid Gladiator to school on Earth, with his bodyguard Deathbird being left behind as a member of the X-Men, so there are links between the two, maybe Hickman could bring Deathbird in a role like that.

Staff Writer

BubbaKanoosh wrote:They should've done something like Gladiator sending someone to Earth as a watchdog type thing. His eyes and ears on Earth, since AvX earth is kinda on everyone's hate list

In Wolverine & The X-Men, Gladiator sent his son, Kid Gladiator to school on Earth, with his bodyguard Deathbird being left behind as a member of the X-Men, so there are links between the two, maybe Hickman could bring Deathbird in a role like that.

Fagorstorm

chap22 wrote:yeah, but no. i mean it's explained how she gets the suit, and how she gets to Chandilar, and how she goes from subguardian to superguardian, but never once does Hickman even pretend to offer up an explanation for why the Imperial Guard, a force whose sole purpose for being is to guard and protect the Shi'ar Imperium, would even consider taking in someone who has absolutely no loyalty to that empire or the people who run it. she just shows up on the throneworld wearing Smasher tech she picked up basically out of the trash and Gladiator and the rest are like "'sup. oh, you confiscated our dead guy's tech? it's cool, come join our most prestigious, well-trained, groomed from birth group of warriors, random Earthling college dropout #187,432."

Hickman made me like Izzy Dare in just this one issue, and i think she'll make a fine Avenger, but i'm having trouble buying the idea that she'd be accepted as a Guardsman too.

Exactly what I was wondering myself. Besides Gladiator and the Shi Ar don't think that highly of Earth although they are cool with many of its heroes so I don't see how some random earthling would just be accepted into their ranks like this.

Fagorstorm

chap22 wrote:yeah, but no. i mean it's explained how she gets the suit, and how she gets to Chandilar, and how she goes from subguardian to superguardian, but never once does Hickman even pretend to offer up an explanation for why the Imperial Guard, a force whose sole purpose for being is to guard and protect the Shi'ar Imperium, would even consider taking in someone who has absolutely no loyalty to that empire or the people who run it. she just shows up on the throneworld wearing Smasher tech she picked up basically out of the trash and Gladiator and the rest are like "'sup. oh, you confiscated our dead guy's tech? it's cool, come join our most prestigious, well-trained, groomed from birth group of warriors, random Earthling college dropout #187,432."

Hickman made me like Izzy Dare in just this one issue, and i think she'll make a fine Avenger, but i'm having trouble buying the idea that she'd be accepted as a Guardsman too.

Exactly what I was wondering myself. Besides Gladiator and the Shi Ar don't think that highly of Earth although they are cool with many of its heroes so I don't see how some random earthling would just be accepted into their ranks like this.

Staff Writer

Punchy wrote:In Wolverine & The X-Men, Gladiator sent his son, Kid Gladiator to school on Earth, with his bodyguard Deathbird being left behind as a member of the X-Men, so there are links between the two, maybe Hickman could bring Deathbird in a role like that.

not to be nitpicky, but Deathbird is a villain, WARBIRD is the member of the X-Men.

Staff Writer

Punchy wrote:In Wolverine & The X-Men, Gladiator sent his son, Kid Gladiator to school on Earth, with his bodyguard Deathbird being left behind as a member of the X-Men, so there are links between the two, maybe Hickman could bring Deathbird in a role like that.

not to be nitpicky, but Deathbird is a villain, WARBIRD is the member of the X-Men.